Weird top 5 cities in hot seat?

[Adagio]

I was just testing hotseat (me playing as two Civs). After I have played some time, I chose to check out the top 5 cities (Actually I checked out the demographs, but couldn't avoid seeing the top 5 cities) for Civ1. As it became Civ2's turn, I also chose to check the Demographs here, but also noticed the top 5 cities here... The top 5 cities for the two different Civs where different (Civ2 had some minor city as No 3 city)...

I went back to Civ1 to check the top 5 cities again (Things might have changed), but here the top 5 cities were the same as it was last turn for that Civ... How come?

[Adagio]

Hmmm...nobody who has ever come across this?

[Boracks]

Haven't come across that but I have a theory. Ahem.

If the two civs in question haven't met or gotten contact with all the other civs, then their knowledge of the top civs might be different.

I am playing a SP game where all I knew about was the four of us on one land mass until I had galleons and found 12 more civs! Before finding them, when I checked the score, only the four of us showed up. We had no knowledge that the others existed. And it was a bit disconcerting to suddenly go from first to sixth in what had looked like a four player game.

[BlueWaldo]

how do you check the top five cities?

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Boracks
Haven't come across that but I have a theory. Ahem.

If the two civs in question haven't met or gotten contact with all the other civs, then their knowledge of the top civs might be different.

That's not the case, since I have already meet all civs...

And btw, you see the top 5 cities, by pressing F11

[Inverse Icarus]

i've noticed that for some reason i never see my own cities in the top 5 in MP, no matter how many wonders i have in them (i has the Colossus and Great Library one game in my capital). could that be it?

[Adagio]

Only two cities had wonders, and they both were on the top 5 list, by both Civs...

[asleepathewheel]

interesting

are the top 5 determined by culture?

IF so, perhaps the non wonder cities have similar culture-so similar that they leap frog each other as their turn comes up.

just a theory, could be totally wrong. I'm not sure when culture is added-at your turn or at the start of the year.

[ixnay]

From my experience, the top 5 cities are indeed determined by culture. Don't know if it's any different in multiplayer or anything.

[Adagio]

It might be the culture, since the minor city, that's in player2's top 5 list, is one of his own (Player1 is America, and player2 is Japan)... though I don't remember the other cities...